He caught her glance, he understood, and the answering hint of his smile had a touch of embarrassed apology.

The man had turned from fire to sun, his grin trying for embarrassed apology.

It makes regular inadvertent appearances in live sports commentaries, which tends to prompt an embarrassed apology but occasionally goes unnoticed.

I had expected an embarrassed apology and a hasty check to appease my client-his stepdaughter.

I murmured another embarrassed apology, but to my surprise the woman extricated herself quickly from beneath the man and stood up in an agile, untroubled movement.

He shrugged, in a pretense of embarrassed apology.

Jake yelled, but instead of calling back an embarrassed apology, Gail must have started toward them.

With any luck at all, he told himself, Dax would recognize it as a heartfelt and embarrassed apology and see fit to end his torment.

The following morning, Claudia showed up only a few moments before the meeting began, whispering an embarrassed apology for sleeping later than she had planned.

Realizing they had made what could be a career-ending mistake, they muttered quick, embarrassed apologies and sped away.